Dr. Jannik Hofestädt

Dr. Jannik Hofestädt

My field of research is first data analysis of KM3NeT/ORCA, measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy and tau neutrino appearance with ORCA, and feasibility study for determination of the leptonic CP-phase with Super-ORCA.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Short scientific curriculum vitae: CV

  • since 03/2017
    Postdoctoral researcher, ECAP & University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 10/2012 – 02/2017
    PhD student, ECAP & University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Degree: PhD in Physics
    Thesis: Measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy with the future KM3NeT/ORCA detector
  • 10/2009 – 04/2012
    Master student, University of Göttingen
    Degree: Master of Science
  • 09/2010 – 01/2011
    Erasmus student, Nikhef & University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 07/2010 – 09/2010
    Summer student, DESY, Hamburg
  • 10/2006 – 10/2009
    Bachelor student, University of Göttingen
    Degree: Bachelor of Science

Awards

  • Gerda-Weller-Prize for an outstanding dissertation in physics, awarded every four years, Department of Physics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Global Neutrino Network (GNN) Dissertation Prize 2017
  • Ohm-Prize for an excellent dissertation in physics in 2017, Department of Physics of University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • First best poster award, International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes (NeuTel) 2017

Conference talks, seminars and posters

Selection of conference talks and seminars

  • Atmospheric Neutrinos Detected with the First KM3NeT Detection Units of ARCA and ORCA, Contributed talk at the International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), Madison, USA
  • Physics with KM3NeT/ORCA, Invited talk at the international workshop on Prospects of Neutrino Physics, Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan
  • Summary of Parallel Sessions: Particle Physics with Neutrino Telescopes, Invited talk at the Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes (VLVnT) conference, Dubna, Russia, October 2018
  • ANTARES and KM3NeT: Status and perspectives, Invited talk at the Astroparticle Physics in Germany workshop, Mainz, August 2018
  • KM3NeT/Super-ORCA: Measuring the leptonic CP-phase with atmospheric neutrinos, Contributed talk at the Advanced Workshop on Physics of Atmospheric Neutrinos (PANE), Trieste, Italy, June 2018
  • Measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy with the future KM3NeT/ORCA detector in the deep sea,
    Invited talk in the Symposium Dissertationspreis der Sektion Materie und Kosmos at the 2018 spring meeting of the German physical society (DPG), Würzburg, Germany, March 2018 
  • Measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy with KM3NeT/ORCA,
    Contributed talk at the Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP) conference 2017, Sudbury, Canada, July 2017
  • KM3NeT/ORCA: neutrino physics in the deep Mediterranean Sea,
    Invited seminar talk at the Particle Physics Seminar at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, June 2017
  • Prospects for measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy with KM3NeT/ORCA,
    Contributed talk at the European Cosmic Ray Symposium (ECRS) conference 2016, Turin, Italy, September 2017
  • Neutrino mass hierarchy determination using atmospheric neutrinos – ORCA status report,
    Seminar talk at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erlangen, Germany, January 2014

Selection of posters at conference

  • Super-ORCA: Measuring the leptonic CP-phase with Atmospheric Neutrinos and Beam Neutrinos, International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), Madison, USA
  • KM3NeT/Super-ORCA: Measuring the leptonic CP-phase with atmospheric neutrinos, International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino), Heidelberg, Germany, June 2018
  • Event reconstruction in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector, International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes (NeuTel), Venice, Italy, March 2017
  • Studies of intrinsic resolution to low energy electron and muon neutrino events with neutrino telescopes, International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), The Hague, Netherlands, July 2015
  • Reconstruction of shower-like neutrino events with the KM3NeT/ORCA detector, International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), The Hague, Netherlands, July 2015
  • ORCA: a feasibility study of measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy with an underwater Cherenkov detector within the KM3NeT framework, International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), Valencia, Spain, July 2014